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NAVA 38: Indianapolis, Indiana
Radisson Hotel City Centre
October 8–10, 2004
Details and additional photos of NAVA 38: The NAVA 38 Flag:  James A. Croft of Northampton, Massachusetts, designed the flag, which shows the NAVA chevron on a background of black and white checks, representing the checkered flag used in auto racing, representing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Within the chevron, a black-and-white version of the Indianapolis flag appears.

Meeting flag description from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA

Organizing Committee: Truman G. Pope and members of the Great Waters Association of Vexillology (GWAV)

Significant Events:

  • NAVA officially announced the results of its American City Flag Survey (fortunately, the Indianapolis flag ranked in the top ten city flags in the country!).
  • At the Saturday night's banquet Donna Schmink, a museum specialist with the Indiana War Museum, gave a compelling illustrated keynote talk about the Civil War battle flags in its collection.

The Featured Tours:

The attendees visited the imposing Indiana War Museum.  After a tour of the entire museum led by curator Donna Schmink, which included a U.S. national flag carried at the Battle of Gettysburg with (purportedly) over 300 bullet holes in it, NAVA members were then taken “into the vaults” to see the huge collection of Civil War flags stored in massive archival shelving units.

The Presentations:

  • The “Pine Tree” Flag in the American Revolution — Peter A. Ansoff, Virginia.
  • The Genesis of the Stars and Bars — Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr. J.D., Tennessee.
  • Betsy Ross—An American Patriot and Legend Revisited — John B. Harker M.A., Florida.
  • The Hawaiian Flag — Patrick Ka’ano’i, Hawaii.
  • American City Flags—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Edward B. Kaye, Oregon.
  • Star Patterns — David B. Martucci, Maine.
  • Changing Perspectives on Vexillology — Whitney Smith Ph.D., LF, FF, WSF, Massachusetts.
  • The Eagles of Buenos Aires — Gustavo Tracchia, New York, and Francisco Gregoric, Argentina.
  • Flags of Meso-America — Rafael Yates Sosa M.D., Mexico.

Announced Awards and Honors:

  • Captain William Driver Award: Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr. J.D.
  • The Vexillonnaire Award: Tony Johnson of Washington State for his design of the Chinook tribal flag.

Fiscal Sponsors:

Driver Award : CRW Flags, The Flag Guys, TME Co.

Attendees: (49)

Mary Ansoff*
Peter Ansoff
Carlos Arias*
Andrew Biles
David Breitenbach
Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr.
Richard T. Clark
Bernard J. Couture, Jr.
Joann Couture*
James A. Croft
Carita Culmer
Rodney Deal
Mary Ann Docktor-Smith
Joseph Donovan
Larry L. Fast
Pamela Fast
  		Martin A. Francis
Carl Gurtman
John B. Harker
John R. Harker
Kevin Harrington
Lee L. Herold
Ted Kaye
Peter Kinderman
Lynn Knights
John A. Lowe
David Martucci
Janet Martucci
Rich Monahan
Stan Motazz
Kevin Murray
Peter Orenski
Harry Oswald
 David Ott
Alberto Patrón Erosa*
Georgia Pope*
Truman G. Pope
John Purcell
Mark Ritzenhein
Thomas Schaffner
Michel Simard
Randy Smith
Whitney Smith
Raphel Yates Sosa
Charles A. Spain, Jr.
Gus Tracchia
Peter Turek
Gerd Vehres
Stefanie Vehres*

* companion
Flag image drawn by Clay Moss – Flag photo from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA